Brian Eno Quotes
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
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Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
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I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
